Last Updated on September 3, 2025 by Angel Melanson
We have great news for you about the Best Horror Movies Streaming in August. You will have your pick of new films and TV shows premiering on many of the streaming services. along with plenty of scary repertory titles to keep you scared all month long.
The battle of one family against Death will finally come to streaming in August as Final Destination: Bloodlines will start streaming on HBO Max this month. You'll also be able to enjoy Alien: Covenant, Freaky Tales, and The Nun as well.
Arrow has Gaspar Noé's hallucinatory Lux ÆTerna, Sator, 100 Bloody Acres, Crackoon, and their latest exploration into the mind of a genre expert, Tim Lucas Selects, as the Video Watchdog founder/editor and novelist chooses his favorite fright films and he has written a book on genre auteur Mario Bava.
Hulu steps into the arena with Osgood Perkins' change of pace follow-up to his breakout hit Longlegs, The Monkey. It's a rip-roaring romp that kills a lot of people in some of the funniest yet horrifying ways. They will also host the premiere of the newest entry into the Alien franchise, the show created by Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth. Xenomorph fans have a lot to look forward to with new episodes dropping every week until September 23. You can count on Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk's slasher comedy Hell of a Summer and Spider One's Little Bites to keep you entertained as well.
Paramount+ sets you up for an epic binge-watch of Paranormal Activity because they have every single film in the series streaming in August. Peacock logs on with a rare appearance of David Fincher's Se7en and the premiere of Borderline starring Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson. Prime howls at the supermoon with Steven C. Miller's Werewolves, starring Frank Grillo and werewolves that came to life through practical effects.
Screambox has a real treat in store for viewers this month. While there are obvious standouts like Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer, Bruno Mattei's post-apocalyptic rodentfest Rats: Night of Terror, and the intriguing low-budget movie Maximum Strollerdrive, the big news (and the reason why the streamer has so many scary movies this month), is that to celebrate the release of Macon Blair's remake of The Toxic Avenger, Screambox has made 50, you read that right, Troma films available on their service this month starting on August 15.
Let's all celebrate Toxie with an all-you-can-eat buffet of Troma.
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Arrow
Image Credit: Arrow August 8:
100 Bloody Acres: An inspired horror-comedy about the Morgan brothers, Reg and Lindsay, who have bolstered their organic fertilizer business by adding a novel ingredient to their secret blend: human blood and bones. Until now, the brothers have relied on the dead victims of car accidents, but unfortunately, it's been months since their last find, and a customer is impatiently waiting for delivery.
Breaking the Surface: During a winter dive on a remote part of the coast in Northern Norway, two sisters' lives fall into danger; when a rockfall traps one of the sisters on the ocean floor, a battle against time begins in the middle of the wilderness.
Lux ÆTerna: Gaspar Noé, the arch provocateur of New French Extremity responsible for Irreversible and Enter the Void, blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction in Lux Æterna, his ode to the suffering and sacrifices involved in the creation of art. French cinema icons Charlotte Gainsbourg (Ismael’s Ghosts, Antichrist) and Béatrice Dalle (Betty Blue, Inside), playing themselves, star as the lead actress and the director of an experimental film about witches. But as preparations for the shoot get underway, the increasingly chaotic production slowly unravels as egos and bitter resentments rise to the surface, threatening to derail the entire enterprise. Shot over just five days and largely improvised by the superlative cast, Lux Æterna is a powerful, hypnotic assault on the senses like no other, cementing Noé’s position as one of the most incendiary voices in cinema today.
Sator: Secluded in a desolate forest, a broken family is observed by Sator, a supernatural entity who is attempting to claim them.
Arrow Here Kitty Kitty:
As long as there have been scary stories to make you lose sleep, there's always a cat in there to up the tension, provide solace, or jump out in front of you when you least expect it. Curl up with your favourite kitty and enjoy these hair-raising shockers that feature fearsome (and friendly) felines that are fixed for fright. Titles Include: Nekromantik, At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, and The Gore Gore Girls.
August 15:
Image Credit: Arrow Tim Lucas Selects: Video Watchdog founder/editor, novelist (Throat Sprockets, The Book of Renfield, The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes), author of Mario Bava – All the Colors of the Dark, contributor to magazines from Sight & Sound to Cinefantastique and Fangoria, and audio commentator on more than 200 DVD, Blu-ray and 4K releases worldwide.
“Arrow’s library of offbeat, peripheral, and gnostic cinema is such a rich trove that I could easily select any title at random and come up with another four that are related to it, by director or writer, actor or cinematographer, or in some still more subterranean way. Whatever you need from Arrow: a jukebox, a roller coaster, or a resource of higher education – it’s here for you, in plenty.” Titles Include: Toys Are Not for Children, Season of the Witch, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
August 22:
Crackcoon: Smaller and craftier than Cocaine Bear, Arrow presents Crackcoon, in which a raccoon on crack terrorizes a mountain community.
HBO Max
Image Credit: Warner Brothers Alien: Covenant: The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. The second prequel, directed by Ridley Scot,t stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir.
Final Destination: Bloodlines: Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefani heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle – her grandmother, Iris – and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all. Final Destination Bloodlines stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Rya Kihlstedt, with Brec Bassinger and Tony Todd, and was co-directed by Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky.
Freaky Tales: Four interconnected stories set in 1987 Oakland, CA. will tell about the love of music, movies, people, places, and memories beyond our knowable universe. Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the film stars Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, singer Normani in her film debut, and Dominique Thorne.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch: In director Joe Dante's sequel to his hit horror comedy, The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken control of a New York City media mogul's high-tech skyscraper. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, and Keye Luke return while Belinda Balaski plays a different character with new cast members John Glover, Robert Prosky, Haviland Morris, Robert Picardo, and Christopher Lee.
The Nun: A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. Taissa Farmiga, Demián Bichir, Jonas Bloquet, and horror fan favorite actress Bonnie Aarons, as Valek, the Nun.
Hulu
Image Credit: IMDB Evil Dead (2013): Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods in the brutal Fede Álvarez sequel to the series.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Director Scott Derrickson's exorcism tale about a lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl, starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Beth Hurt, Henry Czerny, and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Hell of a Summer: The counselors of a summer camp are terrorized by a masked killer in this horror comedy co-written and co-directed by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk. Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Bryk, Wolfhard, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, and Adam Pally star in this slasher satire.
It Feeds: After a young girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely.
Little Bites: Spider One directed this tale of a mother's desperate attempt to protect her ten-year-old daughter. A widowed young woman decides to allow a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive to save her child.
The Monkey: Osgood Perkins' hilariously gory adaptation of the Stephen King short story that stars Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. The film features some truly spectacular kills.
Ready or Not: It was not quite what a newly married bride was expecting as her wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Resident Evil: Extinction: In the first sequel to the franchise, survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Thanksgiving: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday. Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon star in this feature-length version of the infamous Grindhouse trailer.
August 12:
Alien: Earth: Showrunner Noah Hawley has created a new vision of Xenomorph terror, this time on Earth. When the space vessel Maginot crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's biggest threat. Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, and Adarsh Gourav star in this FX series that debuts later this month.
Paramount+
Image Credit: IMDB Annihilation: Directed and co-written by Alex Garland (Civil War), A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition in which the laws of nature don't apply, and with a team of scientists and a paramedic, explores the mysterious force called The Shimmer, which has taken over an area on Earth. Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac star in this acclaimed film.
Crawl: A father and daughter are caught in a violent hurricane, and the situation is complicated by their troubled relationship and the giant alligators who attack while they try to weather the storm.
Event Horizon: A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship, the Event Horizon, that had been lost for seven years. The crew is played by Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard T. Jones, and Joely Richardson. The film was not a success on its release, but has been reaccessed in 28 years becoming a cult classic.
Mother!: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence during the wife's pregnancy. The number of guests swell and their intentions become more and more sinister. Darren Aronofsky directed this surreal film that stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig.
Paranormal Activity: The original found footage hit directed by Oren Peli that spawned an entire franchise in which a couple moves to suburbia, and becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Paranormal Activity 2: After experiencing what they think are a series of “break-ins”, a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Paranormal Activity 3: In a prequel in the series, two young sisters, Katie and Kristi, befriend an invisible entity called Toby, who resides in their home in 1988.
Paranormal Activity 4: It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witnesses strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension: Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones: When a young man becomes the target of a malevolent entity, he must uncover its true intentions before it takes complete control of him.
Red Eye: Lisa, on her flight to Miami, befriends Jackson, who turns out to be a terrorist. Holding her hostage, he forces her to help him assassinate the United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
Shutter Island: Two US marshals are sent to a mental institution on an inhospitable island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient.
The Ruins: A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
Zodiac: Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Peacock
Image Credit: IMDB Borderline: A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles in this comedy horror film starring Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails, Alba Baptista, and Eric Dane.
The Faculty: When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings. Directed by Robert Rodriguez, it stars Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Salma Hayek.
Happy Death Day: A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity. This time loop slasher was directed by Christopher Landon and stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard.
Ma: A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host. Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis, Gianni Paolo, McKaley Miller, and Luke Evans star in this cult favorite.
M3gan: When robotics engineer Gemma becomes the guardian of her orphaned niece, Cady, she thinks her new invention, a robotic AI, will be a good companion. However, M3GAN begins to behave in unexpected and shocking ways.
Revival – Season 1: One miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the deceased rise from their graves, yet appear and act unchanged. And now it is up to Officer and single mother Dana Cypress to solve a murder case where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
Se7en: David Fincher's serial killer movie in which two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt the killer, known only as John Doe, who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Roundtree, R. Lee Ermey., Mark Boone Junior and Leland Orser star in this shocking film with a very well-regarded title sequence.
Texas Chainsaw 3D: When a young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance, little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward. Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine “Trey Songz” Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Paul Rae, Bill Moseley, and Gunnar Hansen, in a “special appearance”, star in this, the seventh entry in the series.
Victor Frankenstein: Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man and the legend we know today.
Prime Video
Image Credit: IMDB The Addams Family 2: The animated sequel to the first film starring the voice talents of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon Walton, Wallace Shawn, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and Bill Hader. Morticia and Gomez are distraught that Wednesday and Pugsley are growing up. To reclaim their bond, they decide to cram the family into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last vacation together.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man: Hellboy and a rookie B.P.R.D. agent in the 1950s are sent to the Appalachians, where they discover a remote community dominated by witches and led by the sinister local demon, the Crooked Man.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: Evil carnivorous clowns from outer space land on our planet and terrorize a small town, while harvesting human beings to eat. Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, and John Vernon star in this cult classic from the Chiodo Brothers that understands the fear we all have of clowns.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: Master of horror, Tobe Hooper's wild horror comedy sequel to his magnificent original film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, pulls out all the stops to give the audience something different from TCM. From bringing in Dennis Hopper as a cowboy hat-wearing lawman seeking vengeance with chainsaws of his own to a chili cookoff subplot, he definitely succeeded. Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Bill Moseley, and Jim Siedow star in the film that will blow your mind.
Werewolves: After a worldwide pandemic the previous year of people turning into werewolves after a super-moon event, two scientists try to stop the mutation from happening again as part of a team effort, but the experiment goes wildly awry. Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, James Michael Cummings, and Lou Diamond Phillips star in Steven C. Miller's scary action movie with a whole lot of werewolves.
Screambox
Image Credit: IMDB August 1:
Ichi the Killer: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
August 5:
Serial: In Ashbourne Falls, Harold hides in plain sight, a quiet man with a dark compulsion to kill. Mabel, a disgraced nurse, moves through life with a dark secret. Starring Stephanie Harlowe, this is the story of two killers destined to collide.
August 8:
Rats: Night of Terror: In a post-apocalyptic Earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the Earth's surface, but the place is overrun by vicious rats.
The Glass Ceiling: Marta spends a few days alone while her husband is on a business trip. But she starts to get scared when she hears some mysterious steps every night on the top floor. Her neighbor will try to convince her that it is her husband's footsteps when he returns from work, but Marta does not believe it and begins to investigate.
August 15:
1990: The Bronx Warriors:
Basket Case 2
Basket Case 3
Beware, Children at Play!
Black Roses
Blades
Blood Hook
Bloodsucking Freaks
Body Parts
The Bride With White Hair
The Bride With White Hair 2
Cannibal! The Musical
The Children
Class of Nuke ‘Em High 2
Class of Nuke ‘Em High 3
Class of Nuke ‘Em High
Combat Shock
Dead Dudes in the House
Decampitated
Def by Temptation
Endgame
The Exterminator
Father’s Day
Frankenhooker
Fresh Kill
Frightmare
Frostbiter
Graduation Day
The Haunting Fear
Hollow Gate
Igor and the Lunatics
Luther the Geek
Maniac Cop
Monster in the Closet
Mother’s Day
New Gladiators
The Newlydeads
Nightbeast
Pigs
Poultrygeist: Night Of
The Chicken Dead
Rabid Grannies
Red Scorpion
Redneck Zombies
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.
Story of a Junkie
Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator
Surf Nazis Must Die
Terror Firmer
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger Part III
The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders: The Movie
Tromeo and Juliet
Vampire at Midnight
VHS Massacre
VHS Massacre Too
The Wedding Party
August 22:
Maximum Strollerdrive: Chaos breaks out when a killer stroller goes on a spree of carnage across small-town America.
August 29:
Maskhead: Syl and Maddie, a lesbian couple who produce extreme fetish and dark specialty movies. With the help of their sociopathic associate, The Cowboy, the ladies audition numerous up-and-coming talent.
